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Drinkwell Fountain
Anybody using this product? Just bought one yesterday and I'm not too
pleased with the buzzing of the motor. Is this normal? Defective? Solutions? |
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I had a Drinkwell for several years and I never saw my cats use it. I
feed mostly canned food so they hardly drink water at all. I gave the Drinkwell to a friend who has three sister cats. She feeds mostly dry food so her cats use the fountain a lot. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44=B0 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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"---MIKE---" wrote in message ... I had a Drinkwell for several years and I never saw my cats use it. I feed mostly canned food so they hardly drink water at all. I gave the Drinkwell to a friend who has three sister cats. She feeds mostly dry food so her cats use the fountain a lot. Mike, Did you get the package? Phil |
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wrote in message ups.com... Anybody using this product? Just bought one yesterday and I'm not too pleased with the buzzing of the motor. Is this normal? Defective? Solutions? I have one at home and one at work. I just emptied/cleaned/refilled the one at home on Monday and noticed that the motor was a little noisy, and it usually isn't. That's happened before. I think maybe I didn't tighten the motor fully when I put it back together. You might want to empty it and remove & replace the motor to see if that stops it. You can also plug it in for a second before adding water to hear if it makes the noise. The Drinkwell at work is in my office and I never hear it. The two cats at work love it, and Stinky will often spend a long time just staring at the little bubbles in the bowl. I usually add water each morning so the bowl is as full as possible because it bubbles more that way. At home, Tiger (15 years old) uses it a lot but I rarely see Otto (5) near it. He prefers to drink water from the dishes in the sink. In the morning, after I open their can of food I put it in the sink, rinse it and fill it with cold water for him. -- Liz |
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Anybody using this product? Just bought one yesterday and I'm not too pleased with the buzzing of the motor. Is this normal? Defective? Solutions? I have three, and only one buzzes. I wash them once a week, taking them almost completely apart (I got tired of removing the motor from the lower housing - my fingers aren't that strong), and when I cleaned it, I made sure that the 'axle' that the impellor goes onto was seated properly - it wasn't. It came of in my hand, but it was esily put back in. I seated it securely, and the buxxing stopped. Seemed that the 'axle' being loose was causing the impellor to 'wobble' and the blades to strike the housing, causing the noise I was hearing. Now it's quiet. I might add that at first my cats were afraid of it, wouldn't go near it. so I emptied it, and set it in a central area of the house, empty and unplugged. Every day I would scoot it (with my foot) a couple of feet closer to thier regular water dish. Once they were used to it's presence there, I added water to it, but still left it unplugged. After about a week, I stopped refilling their old water dish, and just let them drink out of the fountain. Then another week went bu, I cleaned the fountain, added fresh water & plugged it in. They loved it! So I bought 2 more (one was for a d*g, but he's such a sloppy drinker, I had to wash it every day, so we confiscated it from him and gave it to the cats). I have 1 cat that hasn't known any other water source, and when we had to isolate him for a day after his big snip, he wouldn't drink from the water dish I gave him, he wanted the fountain - made a beeline for it the first chance he got, and drank for about 5 minutes. -- The ONE and ONLY lefthanded-pathetic-paranoid-psychotic-sarcastic-wiseass-ditzy former-blonde in Bloomington! (And proud of it, too)© email me at nalee1964 (at) insightbb (dot) com http://community.webshots.com/user/mgcmdjeep |
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wrote in message ups.com... Anybody using this product? Just bought one yesterday and I'm not too pleased with the buzzing of the motor. Is this normal? Defective? Solutions? I have one. I've had a buzzing noise when the cover is loose. Check to see if the noise is from the cover vibrating. Adam |
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Phil wrote:
Mike, Did you get the package? Yes Phil and I sent you an e-mail thanking you. I also sent you a small donation to Max's House. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44=B0 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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